"isn't dead" is a very low bar. COBOL and Fortran are not dead as long as there's still at least one person on the planet writing code in it. "Failed to gain a

"isn't dead" is a very low bar. COBOL and Fortran are not dead as long as there's still at least one person on the planet writing code in it. "Failed to gain acceptance" is a more realistic criterion, and Lisp and Smalltalk clearly did that.